French? You bet!

Bon Jour! It's the 26th annual Bastille Days in downtown Milwaukee! Everyone's French for the weekend (even you conservatives who don't like them.)

It's one of my favorite summer festivals for a variety of reasons:

It's free!

The food is great (and this year you pay cash, not that goofy buy the tickets game)

It's not the same old music. Check out the schedule here

The people are from here, not down south if you know what I mean.

And they bring their pets on their back! (Who needs a coach purse?)

Here's our summer tour entertainment - the Milwaukee Bucks free throw contest. Get the most in a row and you could find yourself shooting at halftime of a real game. The record from Summerfest is 42 in a row! I would be lucky to get 1 in a row. Get more details here.

Here's the Statue of Liberty (a gift from France!) trying her hand at the free throw game.

Bastille Days is silly with street performers, too, like these creepy tall human puppets.

One of my fav foods at Bastille Days is the ice cream crepe from the Creme and Crepe cafe (yes they provided product for tasting!)

Here's Jane and her crew hard at work wrapping your favorite ice cream (coffee for me) in a paper-thin crepe (a French pancake) and slathering it with whipped cream and chocolate sauce. Yum.

Marcus Monroe works his juggling magic.